{"id":2861,"date":"2014-01-03T19:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2014-01-03T19:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:48:54","slug":"all-that-keeps-you-sane-at-sea-12292013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"All That Keeps You Sane \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [12\/29\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sewing\"<\/a>The wise woman does what she knows
\nIf it\u2019s fighting she fights
\nIf it\u2019s sewing, she sews
\nWhen the tension inside overflows and goes too far
\n[\u2026]
\nGrab a needle, grab a thimble if it\u2019s all that keeps you sane<\/i><\/p>\n

And sometimes it is. When I say I sometimes hold on my sanity by a thread, I don\u2019t think people realize that I mean it literally. I have two escapes out here \u2013 my books, and my thread.<\/p>\n

When I can\u2019t focus on anything else, I can focus on the simple motion of pulling coloured thread through fabric.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always said you can tell the way a contract is going by how much progress I\u2019ve made on my embroidery. Over the summer I completed perhaps a line and a half of stitching, because I simply didn\u2019t \u2018need\u2019 it. I\u2019ve been on the flagship for just over a week and I\u2019ve already completed five lines\u2026that should tell you something about the way things are going right now. It\u2019s become my evening and port day ritual: Criminal Minds on the laptop, embroidery cloth over my knees.<\/p>\n

If I finish the project by the end of this season (which at this rate actually wouldn\u2019t surprise me all that much) I must then be faced with the dilemma of what to do with it. My sewing is much like my baking, after I\u2019ve completed something I have no real need to keep it \u2013 I usually have to find someone to give it to. Thing is, needlework is not as easy to gift as double-chocolate-chip cookies.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know though, I suspect that after all this pattern has seen me through, this one might be the only one to end up on my wall\u2026<\/p>\n

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The wise woman does what she knows If it\u2019s fighting she fights If it\u2019s sewing, she sews When the tension inside overflows and goes too far [\u2026] Grab a needle, grab a thimble if it\u2019s all that keeps you sane … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-holiday-cruises-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-K9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}